Grice - Alexandrine (CD)

Art Rock musician GRICE returns with his second album Alexandrine, which builds on 2012's highly-regarded Propeller.

Featuring Richard Barbieri on keyboards (and as co-producer on two tracks), the album was mixed by Steve Jansen and also includes performances from 05Ric, BJ Cole, and Steve Bingham (no-man), amongst others.

Rupert Hine - Unshy On The Skyline (cd)

Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain (blu-ray)

This is the corrected version of this Blu-Ray set with new disc and booklet

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A 'super audio' blu-ray edition of Simple Minds' 1984 classic featuring a 5.1 surround sound mix, remixed from the multi-track master tapes by Steven Wilson, as well as a high res stereo mix and a Dolby digital 5.1 surround mix.

Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain (4cd/1dvd)

This is the corrected version of this box set with new DVD disc and booklet

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A five disc box set of Simple Minds 1984 classic, Sparkle In The Rain, containing a 5.1 Steven Wilson surround mix, the original album re-mastered, a complete concert, rare b-sides, promo videos and a 36 page booklet.

Todd Rundgren - 2nd Wind (cd)

Grice - Propeller (cd)

Propeller is the debut solo album from singer-songwriter, Grice.

A restless and multi-layered combination of electro-acoustic glitch, art-rock and crafted experimental pop, with a richly detailed production sheen, the album features performances from BJ Cole, Markus Reuter, Lee Fletcher, Raphael Ravenscroft, jazz trumpeter Luca Calabrese, violinist Steve Bingham, 05Ric and more . The 13 track album is produced by Lee Fletcher (Unsung Productions), co-produced by Grice and mastered by the legendary Simon Heyworth.

The cd is presented in an elegant card digi-pack with original artwork courtesy of British artist Elizabeth McAlpine.

Brian Eno - Nerve Net (double vinyl)

The David Rhodes Band - The David Rhodes Band (cd)

Produced by Chris Hughes, mixed by Tchad Blake and featuring Ged Lynch (Gabriel/Sylvian) on drums and Charlie Jones (Robert Plant/Goldfrapp) on bass, The David Rhodes Band is a trio led by legendary Kate Bush/Peter Gabriel guitarist David Rhodes.

Bill Nelson - Noise Candy (6cd)

A fascinating project gathering together a host of recordings made by Bill at his various home studios
between 1990 and 2000 and featuring 121 tracks, the set comprises 6 CDs of songs and instrumental music, with each CD being an album in its own right.

David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - Damage (cd)

David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - The First Day (cd)

1993's Sylvian and Fripp's The First Day surprised many with its hard-hitting sound.

Perhaps closer in spirit to the mid-1990s King Crimson to come than Sylvian's past work, the album boldly fused the accessible and the experimental, and in the exquisite Bringing Down The Light offered the first recorded example of Fripp's contemporary Soundscapes approach.

IAnson - In Chances Of Light (flac download)

In Chances Of Light is the debut album from i'Anson.

Packed with personal memories, evoking one man's relationship with a wild and immutable landscape, and written and produced on the magical island of Jura in Scotland, it features Hugh Carswell with percussionist Steve Jansen, jazz bassist Dudley Phillips and the Scottish Ensemble (among others).

iAnson - In Chances of Light (CD + signed photo)

In Chances Of Light is the debut album from I'Anson.

Packed with personal memories, evoking one man's relationship with a wild and immutable landscape, and written and produced on the magical island of Jura in Scotland, it features Hugh Carswell with percussionist Steve Jansen, jazz bassist Dudley Phillips and the Scottish Ensemble (among others).

A beautiful recording, atmospheric and touching in equal measure, presented in a high quality six panel, matt finish digipack, including a twenty page booklet.

This special version comes with a 3" x 3" matt finish photo print - individually titled and signed by Hugh - taken from Hugh's collection of Jura 'Instagram' images (sized to fit inside the digipack pocket).

iAnson - In Chances of Light (CD)

In Chances Of Light is the debut album from I'Anson.

Packed with personal memories, evoking one man's relationship with a wild and immutable landscape, and written and produced on the magical island of Jura in Scotland, it features Hugh Carswell with percussionist Steve Jansen, jazz bassist Dudley Phillips and the Scottish Ensemble (among others).

A beautiful recording, atmospheric and touching in equal measure, presented in a high quality six panel, matt finish digipack, including a twenty page booklet.

Be Bop Deluxe - Be Bop Deluxe At the BBC 1974-1978 (3cd/1dvd)

* 23 previously unreleased recordings on CD for the first time
* The first ever commercial DVD (NTSC, Region 0) release from this highly influential band, which features an hour of hitherto unreleased footage

Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back / And I'll Scratch Yours (double cd)

Scratch My Back, Gabriel's wonderful orchestral collection of covers is finally paired with And I'll Scratch Yours, a cd featuring most of the artists he covered covering Gabriel's own work.

An intriguing concept and coupling featuring, amongst other delights, PG's striking versions of The Boy In The Bubble and Mirrorball, plus Elbow's take on Mercy Street and Lou Reed's version of Solsbury Hill.

Robert Calvert - Lucky Leif And The Longships (cd)

Produced by Brian Eno and featuring Simon House, Nik Turner and a bizarre banjo turn from Michael Moorcock, Calvert's wonderful conceptual oddity from 1975 has been remastered from the original tapes and features two bonus tracks.

This is the Vinyl 180 audiophile double vinyl version of the album, which has been remastered and pressed on 180gm vinyl with heavyweight gatefold sleeve and comes with newly designed inner bags and a different track order from previous editions.

MooV - Fold (cd)

Released in 2008, Fold was the debut release from Colin Riley's MooV project.

Riley, best known for his work with Bill Bruford, formed the band as a way to explore his interest creating a music that uniquely drew from ethereal forward-thinking Pop, Scandinavian chamber Jazz, Ambient and Minimalist Classical genres.

MooV - Here (cd)

As with its predecessor Fold, MooV's second album Here is a subtle and darkly atmospheric collection of pieces that exist in a hinterland between Avant Pop, Chamber Jazz and Classical, and Electronica.

Nick Beggs - The Darkness In Mens Hearts (cd)

Topped and tailed with two new pieces, Nick Beggs's Burning Shed label debut is a compilation of the solo Chapman Stick pieces from his two albums, The Stick Insect (2000) and The Maverick Helmsman (2004).

Containing superbly executed lyrical and atmospheric sketches that by turns suggest Modern Jazz (Metheny, Pastorious), Art Rock (Tony Levin), Ambient, and Classical guitar recitals, The Darkness In Men's Hearts is a consistently engaging and meditative experience that displays the more introspective side of a most extrovert performer.

With Nick currently enjoying success with both Lifesigns and the Steven Wilson band, The Darkness In Men's Hearts provides an ideal opportunity to sample the work of one of Britain's most distinctive bass players.

Bill Nelson Orchestra Arcana - Iconography (cd)

Iconography was the first release under the name, Bill Nelson's Orchestra Arcana.

Comprising recordings made at Bill's Echo Observatory home studio in 1984 and 1985, Nelson says of the album, "Whilst these recordings are lo-fi in nature, I have always been fond of them. These recordings serve as a reminder that expensive technology isn't always the key to creativity."

This 2013 Cocteau Discs edition fully restores the original album artwork and features a new sleeve note by Bill Nelson. It also features two bonus tracks from the Sex Psyche Etc EP released in 1985.

Rhys Marsh And The Autumn Ghost - Trio (double cd)

Recorded live in the studio over the course of two days, Trio is the 2013 double cd release by Scandinavian 'Chamber Prog' band, Rhys Marsh And The Autumn Ghost.

Featuring a dramatically rearranged selection of songs from the first three Autumn Ghost records plus an exclusive 10 minute instrumental track, the album captures the power and spontaneity of the band's highly regarded live performances.

Sanguine Hum - The Weight Of The World (cd/dvd)

The special limited cd/dvd edition of Sanguine Hum's second album.

Containing seven tracks - including the 15 minute title piece - The Weight Of The World sees the band take their intricate Post-Progressive sound further with the help of new recruit, No-Man drummer, Andrew Booker.

The region free ntsc dvd features a documentary on the making of the album.

Julie Slick - Terroir (cd)

The second release from Adrian Belew Power Trio/Crimson ProjeKct bassist and composer Julie Slick.

The album features luxuriant soundscapes, tangled rythms and an impressive list of guest musicians including sought after drummers Pat Mastelotto and Marco Minnemann and legendary guitarists Adrian Belew and David Torn.

Another adventurous statement from a player Guitar Player's Anil Prasad described as being, "One of the best bassists in the world."

Rhys Marsh And The Autumn Ghost - The Blue Hour (cd)

Rhys Marsh And The Autumn Ghost return with their third full-length record, The Blue Hour, in which the band enter yet more bold sonic-territory.

The trademark combination of dynamics and melancholy remain, though the strings and Mellotrons have given way to brass and woodwind ensembles and the layered harmonies have been stripped back to reveal a more focused sound.

From the enticing polyrhythms of The Movements Of Our Last Farewell, via the frantically-paced Wooden Heart to the elegantly-psychedelic One More Moment, The Blue Hour surprises and soothes in equal measure.

This is the first album on which Marsh has chosen to feature an entirely Norwegian line-up, borrowing from bands such as Jaga Jazzist, The National Bank, Emmerhoff And The Melancholy Babies and Pelbo, along with collaborators of Susanne Sundfor, Kaizers Orchestra and Magnet.

David Sylvian - Alchemy - An Index Of Possibilities (cd)

Originally conceived as an extension of the more adventurous instrumental aspects of Brilliant Trees, Alchemy was released in 1985.

Containing the three part Words With The Shaman and the 20 minute soundtrack to Steel Cathedrals, the album features superb performances from Percy Jones, Jon Hassell, Robert Fripp, Kenny Wheeler an others.

This is the 2003 cd reissue/remaster including the additional tracks The Stigma of Chilhood and A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce.

David Sylvian - Gone To Earth (double cd)

David Sylvian's second solo release built on the more atmospheric nature of its predecessor, Brilliant Trees.

Featuring Robert Fripp and Bill Nelson, the album's first disc revealed a poignant and epic Art Rock style, while its second disc boasted a series of haunting instrumentals occasionally evoking Brian Eno's beguiling Apollo soundtrack.

Futurist Manifesto includes all five Be Bop Deluxe studio albums, recorded for Harvest Records between 1974 and 1978, plus b-sides, outtakes and an entire disc of rarities presented by Bill Nelson to EMI in 2011.

Airbag - All Rights Removed (Double LP)

Airbag returns with its second, highly anticipated, album.

A bigger and bolder variation on the Atmospheric Art Rock of the acclaimed Identity, All Rights Removed once more creatively straddles the middle ground between the Progressive inclinations of Porcupine Tree and Pink Floyd, and the Epic Pop of Talk Talk.

Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden (vinyl/dvd)

Talk Talk's 1988 release Spirit Of Eden saw the band wholly embrace the abstract experimental urges hinted at on It's Getting Late In The Evening, Chameleon Day and April 5th.

Simultaneously haunting and hard hitting, graceful and gritty, Spirit Of Eden is very much a unified album statement. An influence on the Post Rock movement to come, as well as on the likes of No-Man, Bark Psychosis and Slint.

Heavyweight 180gm vinyl reissue cut from the original analogue master, alongside a DVD featuring the album as a 96kHz/24 bit LPCM stereo mix. The DVD also features John Cope, the b-side to the I Believe In You single.

Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring (vinyl/dvd)

Talk Talk's astonishing and hugely influential 1986 release The Colour Of Spring struck a perfect balance between the band's more commercial origins and its later experimental work.

Contains the mega-hit Life's What You Make It, the beautiful tone poem April 5th and the epic, uplifting Time It's Time.

Heavyweight 180gm vinyl reissue cut from the original analogue master, alongside a DVD featuring the album as a 96kHz/24 bit LPCM stereo mix. The DVD features the exquisite b-side prelude to Spirit Of Eden, It?s Getting Late In The Evening.

Paul Cusick - P'dice (cd)

Cusick's artful compositions combine the song-craft of Radiohead and Coldplay with the Rock atmospherics of Airbag, OSI and Porcupine Tree, producing a distinctly melodic and personal music with an edge.

Letka - Far Off Country (cd)

Seamlessly combining Country and Ambient influences in a uniquely ethereal way, Letka is the latest collaboration between Irish vocalist Sandra O'Neill and English multi-instrumentalist Peter Chilvers.

The evocative digipack, designed by Carl Glover, features images from his archive of photographs of American ghost towns.

Airbag - All Rights Removed (cd)

Airbag returns with its second, highly anticipated, album.

A bigger and bolder variation on the Atmospheric Art Rock of the acclaimed Identity, All Rights Removed once more creatively straddles the middle ground between the Progressive inclinations of Porcupine Tree and Pink Floyd, and the Epic Pop of Talk Talk.

The limited edition digipak has sold out - we are now selling the jewel case version

Sun Domingo - Songs For End Times (cd)

Sun Domingo's new release Songs For End Times combines the Hard Rock influences of Rush and Soundgarden with the pop sensibilities of Tears For Fears and Crowded House, and the conceptual ambition of Brave-era Marillion.

Recorded and engineered in Atlanta by John Holmes the album has been co-produced and mixed by Bruce Soord (Pineapple Thief), and features performances from Steve Hogarth (Marillion), Adrian Belew (King Crimson) and John Wesley (Porcupine Tree).

Gazpacho - Missa Atropos (cd)

Trey Gunn - Modulator (cd)

Alongside international drumming icon, and rhythmic illusionist Marco Minnemann, former King Crimson member and Tap Guitar innovator Trey Gunn explores new compositional and rhythmic possibilities with his latest album Modulator.

An astonishingly complex and accomplished technological feat that encompasses the brutal and the ethereal, Gunn regards this as one of the most challenging projects of his long and distinguished career.

Bruford Levin Upper Extremities - Blue Nights (double cd)

Recorded live in Japan and the US during 1998, Blue Nights is the acclaimed double cd release from Bill Bruford and Tony Levin's Jazz-tinged Art Rock supergroup, B.L.U.E., which also included David Torn on guitar/loops and Chris Botti on trumpet.

An ideal companion to King Crimson's innovative, contemporaneous, ProjeKcts series of releases.

Nosound - Sol29 (CD/DVD)

Kscope's remastered re-release of Nosound's 2005 debut album

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Expanded to a 2 disc set (CD/DVD), this edition features new and revised artwork.

The audio CD features digitally restored and analogue re-mastered audio of the original album, plus three extra tracks, while the DVD includes a new video for the track Sol29, plus the original 2005 album mixes, and three ambient audio/video tracks previously included on The World Is Outside DVD-R.

This is the definitive Sol29 edition and collects all of Nosound's early studio material.

05RIC - BubbleBurstFlow (CDR)

Inspired by three of his major formative influences (Cocteau Twins, Japan and 1980s King Crimson), Gavin Harrison collaborator and multi-instrumentalist 05Ric has created the BubbleBurstFlow EP specifically for the Mick Karn Appeal.

The EP additionally features Suzanne Barbieri and Lisa Fletcher on vocals, Gavin Harrison on drums and Markus Reuter on TouchGuitars U8.

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N.B. All 05Ric's and Burning Shed's profits will go directly to the Mick Karn Appeal.

Julie Slick - Julie Slick (cd)

The debut instrumental release from Adrian Belew Power Trio bassist Julie Slick is an adventurous combination of progressive rock, jazz-fusion, funk, electronica, post-rock, and world music influences.

Featuring an inspired ensemble, including King Crimson members Robert Fripp and Pat Mastelotto, the album is an impressive statement from a talent Guitar Player's Anil Prasad described as being, "One of the best bassists in the world."

ProjeKct Two - Space Groove (double cd)

ProjeKct Two, featuring Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn and Adrian Belew (in an unaccustomed role as drummer), was the second of King Crimson's ProjeKcts to be planned, but the first to play and record.

Space Groove, recorded over three days (19-21 November 1997), comprises an hour and half's worth of typically idiosyncratic and adventurous improvisations captured in the studio during the band's first sessions together.

Robert Fripp - Exposure (standard edition) (2CD)

Fjieri - Endless (cd)

10 years in the making, Fjieri's debut album Endless represents the satisfying conclusion to a meticulously executed labour of love.

The band, led by Stefano Panunzi and Nicola Lori, are joined by an impressive cast of guest musicians, including Mick Karn, Tim Bowness, Peter Chilvers and Porcupine Tree members, Gavin Harrison and Richard Barbieri.

Co-produced by Barbieri, the album artfully combines Ambient and Progressive Rock influences to create a sophisticated sound that incorporates delicate atmospherics, rich melodies and hard-hitting riffs.

Daniel Vincent - This Building Is Under Electronic Surveillance At All Times (Digipak CD)

Conceived, written and recorded in a week whilst hidden away in the english countryside, Daniel Vincent - better known as one half of electronic rock band The Resonance Association - delivers industrial pop, heavily processed guitar wigouts and processed electronic beats in a 60 minute musical trip.

the resonance association - failure of the grand design

'Failure Of The Grand Design' is The Resonance Association's debut album for Burning Shed.

Clocking in at just under 55 minutes, the album consists of nine dark and ambitious instrumentals (described by the band as being an 'ambient-techno-goth-prog crossover') , and includes a new version of live favourite 'Electrolyte'.

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The Fire Thieves - Back To Stereo (cd)

Released in 2009, Back to Stereo is the third album album by The Fire Thieves, the solo project from Stephen Bennett (Henry Fool / No-Man).

A collection of ten songs about memory, observation and loss, the album, recorded in a remote schoolhouse in Sweden, presents a smorgasbord of Bennett's pop, rock, ambient, jazz and progressive influences.